imported movies are washed out when i drop them on my sequence

[Jerry Hofmann]

And the source material is DVCPRO50? Your imported them how?

Post which OS, and version of FCP 5 and QuickTime you are running and how you got to those upgrades all.

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Jim Eckes]

the file in question is a Media100 quicktime move. i’m running FCP 5.0.2 on a G5 and quicktime is version 7.0.2. video card is a Kona LS.

[Jerry Hofmann]

Could be some wierdness with the Media 100 codec… dunno, but think you should be able to simply use a color corrector to bring back the original look without too much trouble.

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[Jim Eckes]

thanks, i did actually apply a filter to work around it. what’s interesting is that the clip is fine in the source window but when you drop it on the sequence, the blacks go up. if you edit to tape, this level
shift follows but if you export the clip as a quicktime movie, it looks fine. it’s a 30 second commercial so the finished product goes to tape, but i do export the clip as a quicktime to send to the client. anyway, it’s not that much of an issue, i can work around it. but since everything i’ve done up to a month ago was done on M100, i need to break the code on it, this won’t be the last time, i’m sure.

thanks for the input, we’ll see what happens.

[John Pale]

Yeah, its a problem with the Media 100 codec…FCP assumes a range of 0-255, Media 100 uses 16-235.

Unfortunately there is no good workaround. If we are not talking monstrous amounts of media, perhaps you can use Compressor to batch convert to another codec while adjusting the gamma.